Food and Fun

It was a sound that brought summer to a halt along every Erwin Farm street. If we were racing our home-made, human-powered go-carts made from worn-out mower wheels, discarded lumber, rope steering and axles fashioned from metal rods discovered in a pile of rubbish from the old mill trash pile off Laurel Avenue, this sound would bring out a red flag as it drew closer and closer.

During summer months, days are longer and more people are outside for longer periods of time, increasing the health risks from heat exhaustion and overexposure to the sun.
Each year, more Americans on average die from heat waves than from any other natural disaster.
And every hour, one person dies from skin cancer, which is the most common occurring cancer in the Unied States.Staying cool
To avoid heat exhaustion and overexposure to the sun, follow these steps to stay cool and safe this summer:

There’s nothing like the smell of fresh, homegrown tomatoes.
That is exactly what it smelled like in the Carol Raye Dowling Health Services Center at the University of South Carolina Lancaster where in mid-June participants peeled and quartered dozens of tomatoes during Clemson University Cooperation Extension’s hands-on canning course.
Canning is one of the most time-tested ways to preserve that smell and taste of fresh food, but it must be done carefully.

They include earning an education degree from the University of Memphis and becoming a teacher and high school softball coach and possibly, one day, a principal.

But should that plan go awry, the Cordova, Tenn., native does have a back-up.

For now, she has a 1,300-pound winged sprint car with a 360-cubic, 700-horsepower engine and a pair of racing gloves to fall back on. Later on, if she continues to grow and develop, that could mean NASCAR.

They have a wholesalers license and their product is certified as a South Carolina product. In fact, Barbara Lyles and Barbara Hilton even have a certificate from the Department of Homeland Security.

“We are certified as not being terrorists,” Lyles said.

Their product is made in South Carolina and they are licensed to sell. Homeland Security might want to rethink their designation, though, because the cheesecakes Lyles and Hilton make in their small business are definitely “the bomb.”

Opinions and advice on how to achieve good health or overcome health problems are a “dime-a-dozen” nearly everywhere.
But it means a lot more to hear a personal story from someone you know, who’s succeeded in achieving better health.
It’s even better if their program is simple, easy to understand and affordable.
Konstantinos “Gus” Deligiannidis, owner of Gus’ Restaurants in Kershaw and Lancaster, has a story of his own journey to good health, and he’s doing something to share it.

FORT LAWN – In 1996, third-generation farmers David and Jimmy Jordan were looking for a crop that could be watered and didn’t require very much rain.
Their options were limited, given their location just north of Fort Lawn on S.C. 21. That was something the Jordan boys learned young, while watching their grandfather try to scratch out a cotton crop on the same ground.
“We’d sit on the porch and watch thunderstorms come through and go around this place every single time, making our granddaddy so mad he could spit,” David Jordan said.